How to manually recreate missing BizTalk performance counters

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To identify performance issues in a BizTalk solution, you should rely on the performance counters that BizTalk Server uses. All the BizTalk performance counters should be  added to the registry when you run the configuration wizard. If the registry keys were overwritten somehow, those performance counters were gone.  You could use the configuration wizard to recreate those missing BizTalk performance counters, but it requires reconfiguring the features that use the performance counters. To do so you should unconfigure them first, which is something you might not want to do.  Even though it is undocumented, you can manually populate those resister keys for the missing performance counters.

There are two types of the performance libraries that BizTalk Server uses:

1. BTSPerfMonExt.dll for the performance objects that the unmanaged code of BizTalk Server uses.

perflib

2. netfxperf.dll for the performance objects that the managed code of BizTalk Server uses.

  • Note: netfxperf.dll is a .NET framework component. It is shared for all .NET performance counters. For more information about netfxperf.dll see .NET Performance Counters.

netperflib

The following tables shows which performance library is used for each BizTalk performance object:

Object Performance Counter Library Installer
BizTalk:Message Box:* netfxperf.dll Microsoft.BizTalk.MsgBoxPerfCounters.dll

BizTalk:Message AgentBizTalk:File Receive AdapterBizTalk:File Send AdapterBizTalk:HTTP Receive AdapterBizTalk:HTTP Send AdapterBizTalk:POP3 Receive AdapterBizTalk:FTP Receive AdapterBizTalk:FTP Send AdapterBizTalk:MSMQ Receive AdapterBizTalk:MSMQ Send AdapterBizTalk:SOAP Receive AdapterBizTalk:SOAP Send AdapterBizTalk:SMTP Send AdapterBizTalk:SQL Receive AdapterBizTalk:SQL Send AdapterBizTalk:MessagingBizTalk:Messaging Latency

 BTSPerfMonExt.dll BTSPerfMonExt.iniBTSPerfMonExt.h
BizTalk: BAS TPM Management Web Service netfxperf.dll Microsoft.BizTalk.KwTpm.TPMgmtWSPerf.dll
BizTalk: BAS TPM Publishing Web Service netfxperf.dll Microsoft.BizTalk.KwTpm.TPPubWSPerf.dll
BizTalk:Windows SharePoint Services Adapter netfxperf.dll Microsoft.BizTalk.KwTpm.WssAdapter.Runtime.dll
BizTalk:TDDS netfxperf.dll Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.EventBus.dll

 

To recreate the performance counters using netfxperf.dll, you can use InstallUtil.exe in the .NET Framework. If the assembly is installed in the GAC, you can run InstallUtil.exe as follows:

Installutil /i /assemblyname " <InstallerFileName> , Version= <VersionNumOfTheInstaller> , Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken= <PublicKeyOfTheInstaller> "

For example,

InstallUtil /i /assemblyname "Microsoft.BizTalk.MsgBoxPerfCounters, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"

If it is not, you can run InstallUtil.exe as follows:

InstallUtil /i <Installer>

For example,

InstallUtil /i Microsoft.BizTalk.KwTpm.TPMgmtWS.dll

 

To recreate the performance counters using BTSPerfMonExt.dll,  you can use lodctr.exe and unlodctr.exe as follows:

1. Copy the BTSPerfMonExt.ini and BTSPerfMonExt.h files to the %windir%\system32 folder.
2. At a command prompt, go to the the %windir%\system32 folder, and then type the following command to uninstall the damaged performance counters.

unlodctr "BTSSvc.3.0"

3. Then, type the following command to reinstall the BizTalk performance counters:

lodctr BTSPerfMonExt.ini

Thanks,
Young

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.artofbam.com/wordpress/?p=4123
  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2007
    In questo post viene spiegato come ripristinare i Performance Counters di BizTalk nel caso in cui qualche
  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2007
    Is there any way to find out the max values for these performance counters ?
  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    Voilà une astuce qui m'a été bien utile suite à la perte de l'ensemble des compteurs de performances
  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2008
    I am experiencing excessive no. of calls to stored procedure MsgBoxPerfCounters_GetPurgeJobInfo on the BizTalk Msgbox Database and it is driving up the CPU utilization of SQL server.  Do you have any suggestion about this issue?  Can I safely remove the BizTalk performance counters usingInstallUtil /u /assemblyname "Microsoft.BizTalk.MsgBoxPerfCounters, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" ?
  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2011
    I'm work at a data storage company. Can we create custom perfmon counters for our product and make them viewable in BizTalk?
  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2012
    Hello,I performed these steps to create the performance counter manually, especially for BTSPerfMonExt. But still no luck in getting them listed?